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January 24, 2007

Getting the Old Google Image Search Back

I've heard that many people hate the new design of Google Image Search and want the old one back. It's pretty easy to do that, as Google shows the classic design if you disable JavaScript. But here's a way to disable JavaScript only for Google Image Search.

FirefoxGo to your Firefox profile. For Windows XP, go to Start/Run and type: %appdata%/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/Then click on your profile's folder and open user.js in Notepad (if you can't find it, create a blank text file named user.js). Add these lines at the end of the file:

Internet ExplorerThese instructions are for Internet Explorer 7, but should also work for IE6.

* visit Google Images* go to Internet Options* in the Security tab, select "Restricted" and click on "Custom level" button* browse to the Miscellaneous section, enable "Allow META REFRESH" and "Launching programs and files in an IFRAME" (you'll get that these settings will put your computer at risk, which is not really true) and click OK* click on the "Sites" button and add images.google.com (the site should already be in the text box).

Note: There must be a better way than adding images.google.com to the list of restricted sites.